HERTY, CHARLES H. (CHARLES HOLMES), 1867-1938.
Charles H. Herty papers
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Industrial consultant work
Charles H. Herty papers > Industrial consultant work
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Series 9
Industrial consultant work,
1914-1938
Boxes 104-109 and OP2
Scope and Content Note
In 1928, Herty resigned from the Chemical Foundation, Inc., to open a New York office as an industrial consultant. He wanted to encourage financial investments in existing southern industries and to develop industrial markets for southern agricultural products such as peanuts, flax and southern pines, and natural resources like Mud Lake in Florida. He also saw the potential of quick freezing methods to increase the market for southern fruits and vegetables. Most of his consulting work was done during the years 1928-1931. By 1932 he was committed to pine pulp research at the Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory, and in 1933 he reduced the size of his New York office. In 1935 he closed the office.
The series contains general correspondence, correspondence with state organizations, chambers of commerce, some correspondence with power companies, and Herty's letter files of southern timber lands available for industrial development. The next section concerns individual clients. These included, among others, the Industrial Committee of Savannah, the Timber Products Company of Cogdell, Georgia (in which Herty invested financially), and the Tom Huston Peanut Company. Herty corresponded extensively with George Rommel of the Industrial Committee of Savannah and with Alex Sessoms of the Timber Products Company.
Another section relates to various southern railroads. Herty cooperated with industrial agents and development services of these railroads to promote industry in the South. Much of the correspondence is with J. M. Mallory, a general industrial agent of the Central of Georgia Railway Company; with Poole Maynard, an industrial geologist for the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad Company; and to a lesser extent, with R. F. Montsalvatge of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. The series also contains general correspondence about industrial development in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia and miscellaneous papers concerning southern agricultural and industrial development.
Related material can be found in the following series: Series 1: General Correspondence; Series 12: Personal Papers, Mementoes and Memorabilia; and Series 15: Photographs.
General Correspondence and Papers, 1928-1935 | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
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104 | 1 | General Correspondence: 1928-1929 |
104 | 2 | General Correspondence: 1930 |
104 | 3 | General Correspondence: 1931 |
104 | 4 | State Organizations. Correspondence: 1930-1931 |
104 | 5 | Chambers of Commerce. Correspondence:1930-1931 |
104 | 6 | Power Company Developments. Correspondence: 1929-1931 |
104 | 7 | Timber Lands Available. Correspondence: 1929-1930 |
104 | 8 | Timber Lands Available. Correspondence: 1931-1933, 1935 |
Clients. Correspondence and Papers | ||
OP2 | - | Georgia State Forestry Association. Blueprint of proposed experimental pulp and paper plant, September 1931 |
104 | 9 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. Correspondence: 1928 |
104 | 10 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. January-June, 1929 |
104 | 11 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. July-December, undated, 1929 |
104 | 12 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. January-March, 1930 |
104 | 13 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. April-December, 1930 |
104 | 14 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. 1931 |
104 | 15 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. Reports: 1929-1930 |
105 | 1 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. Reports: 1931 |
105 | 2 | Industrial Committee of Savannah. Miscellaneous Papers: 1933 |
OP2 | - | Industrial Committee of Savannah. Map of Industrial Sections of Savannah, February 1928 |
OP2 | - | Industrial Committee of Savannah. Map of Industrial Locations, Savannah, 1931 |
OP2 | - | Industrial Committee of Savannah. Map of Kaolin, Bauxite, and Refractory Clay Deposits, Wilkinson County, Georgia, Central Georgia Railway Co., undated |
105 | 3 | Timber Products Company. Correspondence: 1927-1928 |
105 | 4 | Timber Products Company. Correspondence: 1929 |
105 | 5 | Timber Products Company. Correspondence: 1930 |
105 | 6 | Timber Products Company. Correspondence: 1931-1938, undated |
105 | 7 | Timber Products Company. Financial Papers: 1926-1927 |
105 | 8 | Timber Products Company. 1928-1931 |
105 | 9 | Timber Products Company. 1932-1934 |
105 | 10 | Timber Products Company. 1935-1936 |
105 | 11 | Timber Products Company. 1937-1938 |
105 | 12 | Huston Porter. Correspondence: 1928-1932 |
106 | 1 | Roessler and Hasslacher Chemical Company. Correspondence: 1928-1929 |
106 | 2 | Roessler and Hasslacher Chemical Company. Correspondence: 1930 |
106 | 3 | Alabama By-Products Corporation. Correspondence: 1930-1931 |
106 | 4 | Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Correspondence: 1929-1931 |
106 | 5 | W. D. Mount. Correspondence: 1927, 1929 |
106 | 6 | W. D. Mount. Correspondence: February-July, 1930 |
106 | 7 | W. D. Mount. Correspondence: August-September, 1930 |
106 | 8 | W. D. Mount. Correspondence: October-December, 1930 |
106 | 9 | W. D. Mount. Correspondence: January-March, 1931 |
106 | 10 | W. D. Mount. Correspondence: April-December, 1931 |
106 | 11 | W. D. Mount. Correspondence: 1932 |
106 | 12 | Cummer Lumber Company and Mud Lake, Florida. Correspondence: 1929-1930 |
106 | 13 | Tom Huston Peanut Company. Correspondence: 1930 |
106 | 14 | Tom Huston Peanut Company. January-June, 1931 |
106 | 15 | Tom Huston Peanut Company. July-August, 1931 |
106 | 16 | Tom Huston Peanut Company. September-December, undated, 1931 |
107 | 1 | Tom Huston Peanut Company. 1932-1933, 1935 |
107 | 2 | Tom Huston Peanut Company. Miscellaneous Papers: 1930, undated |
107 | 3 | Peanuts, Cashews and Pecans. Miscellaneous Papers: 1926-1927, 1929-1932 |
107 | 4 | Tom Huston Frozen Foods, Inc. Correspondence: 1930-1931 |
Railroads. Papers | ||
107 | 5 | American Railway Development Association. Correspondence: 1921 |
107 | 6 | J. M. Mallory, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Correspondence: 1917, 1919-1922, 1925-1926 |
107 | 7 | J. M. Mallory, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Correspondence: 1927-1929 |
107 | 8 | J. M. Mallory, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Correspondence: 1930 |
107 | 9 | J. M. Mallory, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Correspondence: 1931 |
108 | 1 | J. M. Mallory, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Correspondence: 1932-1933 |
108 | 2 | J. M. Mallory, Central of Georgia Railway Company. Correspondence: 1935-1937 |
108 | 3 | Poole Maynard, Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad Company. Correspondence: 1922, 1928-1929 |
108 | 4 | Poole Maynard, Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad Company. Correspondence: 1930-1931 |
108 | 5 | Poole Maynard. Miscellaneous Papers: undated |
108 | 6 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Correspondence: 1927-1930 |
108 | 7 | R. F. Montsalvatge, Seabord Air Line Railway Company. Correspondence: 1927-1931 |
108 | 8 | Southern Railway System. Correspondence:1929-1931 |
Southern States. General Correspondence and Papers | ||
108 | 9 | Alabama. General Correspondence: 1929 |
108 | 10 | Georgia. General Correspondence: 1927-1931 |
108 | 11 | Georgia. Miscellaneous Papers |
108 | 12 | Louisiana. General Correspondence: 1929 |
108 | 13 | North Carolina. General Correspondence: 1929 |
108 | 14 | Virginia. General Correspondence: 1929 |
108 | 15 | Southern Agricultural and Industrial Development. Miscellaneous Papers: 1914-1916, 1920, 1931 |
109 | 1 | Industrial Survey of Territory Served by the Tennessee Electric Power Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee: September 15, 1927 |